Ok, sorry this has ended up a bit long, but I need someone who knows about clocks to explain this.
My parents’ house is weird. Lots of strange goings on over the years that can’t be explained. Over the last few nights, their kitchen clock has been going haywire. The other day mum was looking for an old key to a side door that hasn’t been opened in years. She had a bag of keys out and had gone through them all. Couldn’t find it, but decided to see if any of the keys fitted into any of the other doors in the house (old house, all have locks). She went on a hunt and then had a quick lie down on the bed and fell asleep for a minute. She came back into the kitchen to find the keys in a pile on the floor. Ok, so she probably just left them a bit more precariously balanced on the table (she doesn’t think she did) but then she looked at the clock as she had a train to catch, and realised she must have slept way longer than a few minutes because the clock (which she’d checked before going upstairs) was suddenly 2 hours ahead. She panicked and checked her phone etc, the clock was wrong. She rushed to get her train, and as she left shouted to the house to please fix the sodding clock. She came home that night with my dad and the clock was right again. That night they changed the batteries.
Last night she was hunting for her hat (things have gone missing in the house for years). She’d checked the clock as she had food in the oven and was working out what time my dad would be home. A few minutes later, checked it again and it’s 4 hours ahead (sent me a pic). She goes upstairs, calls me as a bit freaked. Later on she texts me and when she checked it again at about 10, it was set to midnight. She’s the only one in the house. What’s going on with the bloody clock? Just a cheap battery powered thing (that she replaced the batteries for after the first incident). Please someone with a rational brain explain that we don’t have a ghost playing silly beggars.
Oh and at the same time she saw the midnight clock, the hat turned up on the floor (where she had definitely checked) in exactly the same spot as she’d previously found something that had been missing for months just suddenly reappear. Right in the middle of the living room floor. What’s going on?!